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  • ⁠Kent-Walsh J, Harrington N, Hahs-Vaughn D, Binger C. Generative Language Intervention for Young Children With Down Syndrome Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch. 2025 Jul 16;56(3):542-564. doi: 10.1044/2025_LSHSS-24-00117. Epub 2025 Jun 30. PMID: 40587257; PMCID: PMC12303605.
  • ⁠Kent-Walsh J, Harrington N, Hahs-Vaughn D, Binger C. Generative Language Intervention for Young Children With Down Syndrome Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch. 2025 Jul 16;56(3):542-564. doi: 10.1044/2025_LSHSS-24-00117. Epub 2025 Jun 30. PMID: 40587257; PMCID: PMC12303605.
  • Finke, Erinn H.; Therrien, Michelle C. S.; Azios, Jamie H.; McElfresh, Jenessa (2025). A scoping review of friendship and AAC (Finke et al., 2025). ASHA journals. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.28119857.v1
  • Adams, Sophie & Zakrzewski, Kate & King, Tahlia & Vecchio, Savannah & Lim, Jacqueline & Conlon, Clancy. (2026). A scoping review of augmentative and alternative communication use in children with childhood apraxia of speech. Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985). 1-12. 10.1080/07434618.2026.2619162.
  • Ulriksen, Line & Bilet-Mossige, Marthe & Cogo-Moreira, Hugo & Øien, Roald & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders. (2024). Reading instruction for students with intellectual disabilities who require augmentative and alternative communication: A multiple single case study with baseline, posttest, follow-up, and maintenance. Research in developmental disabilities. 151. 104790. 10.1016/j.ridd.2024.104790.
  • ⁠Millar DC, Light JC, Schlosser RW. The impact of augmentative and alternative communication intervention on the speech production of individuals with developmental disabilities: a research review. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2006 Apr;49(2):248-64. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2006/021). PMID: 16671842.
  • Pope L, Light J, Exton K. Incorporating Visual Scene Display Augmentative and Alternative Communication Supports Into Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2025 Jul 10;34(4):2260-2279. doi: 10.1044/2025_AJSLP-24-00450. Epub 2025 Jun 30. PMID: 40587315.
  • Therrien MCS, Whalon K, Nunes D, Marti P, Sellers A. A Systematic review of AAC interventions using speech generating devices for autistic preschoolers. Augment Altern Commun. 2025 Jun;41(2):114-128. doi: 10.1080/07434618.2025.2479768. Epub 2025 Mar 31. PMID: 40164143.
  • ⁠Brady, Nancy & Sevcik, Rose & Caves, Kevin & Mclean, L. & Mineo, Beth & Romski, MaryAnn & Snell, Martha & Brown, Diane. (2003). There Are No Prerequisites for Communication. Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication. 12. 27-29. 10.1044/aac12.3.27.
  • Finke EH, Davis JM, Benedict M, Goga L, Kelly J, Palumbo L, Peart T, Waters S. Effects of a Least-to-Most Prompting Procedure on Multisymbol Message Production in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2017 Feb 1;26(1):81-98. doi: 10.1044/2016_AJSLP-14-0187. PMID: 28056153.
  • Biggs EE, Carter EW, Gilson CB. Systematic Review of Interventions Involving Aided AAC Modeling for Children With Complex Communication Needs. Am J Intellect Dev Disabil. 2018 Sep;123(5):443-473. doi: 10.1352/1944-7558-123.5.443. PMID: 30198767.
  • Jennifer Kent-Walsh & David Mcnaughton (2005) Communication Partner Instruction in AAC: Present Practices and Future Directions, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 21:3, 195-204, DOI: 10.1080/07434610400006646
  • Thistle JJ, Holmes SA, Horn MM, Reum AM. Consistent Symbol Location Affects Motor Learning in Preschoolers Without Disabilities: Implications for Designing Augmentative and Alternative Communication Displays. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2018 Aug 6;27(3):1010-1017. doi: 10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0129. PMID: 29860450.
  • Brydon S, Clendon S, Doell E, McLaughlin T. Empowering Parents for AAC: a training and coaching intervention to support parents to implement a core board with fringe vocabulary with their children in New Zealand. Augment Altern Commun. 2025 Feb 5:1-13. doi: 10.1080/07434618.2025.2458856. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39907222.
  • Millar, D.C., Light, v. C., & schlosser, R. W. (2006). The impact of Augmentative and mine Alternative Communication intervention on the speech production of individuals with developmental disabilities: A research review. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
  • Schlosser, R. W., & Wendt, O. (2008). Effects of augmentative and alternative communication nine intervention on speech production in children with autism: A systematic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
  • Walters, C., Sevcik, R. A., & Romski, M. (2021). Spoken vocabulary outcomes of toddlers with developmental delay after parent-implemented augmented language intervention. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
  • ⁠Romski, MaryAnn PhD, CCC-SLP; Sevcik, Rose A. PhD. Augmentative Communication and Early Intervention: Myths and Realities. Infants & Young Children 18(3):p 174-185, July 2005.
  • Gombar, Marija & Bach, Mirjana. (2025). Affective resistance in augmentative and alternative communication: a reflexive case study in autism. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities. 1-14. 10.1080/20473869.2025.2605577.